Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.
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I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.
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Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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America, the country of my heart, my second home.
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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
